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New Caledonia: a very old Darwinian island?
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Philippe Grandcolas1,*, Jerome Murienne2, Tony Robillard1,
Laure Desutter-Grandcolas1, Herve Jourdan3, Eric Guilbert1
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1UMR 5202 CNRS, Departement Systematique et Evolution, Museum national d’Histoire naturelle,45 rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France
2Museum of Comparative Zoology, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology,Harvard University, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
3Centre de Biologie et de Gestion des Populations, INRA, and Laboratoire de Zoologie Appliquee,IRD, 98948 Noumea, Nouvelle-Caledonie
New Caledonia has generally been considered a continental island, the biota of which largely datesback to Gondwanan times owing to its geological origin and the presence of phylogenetic relicts. Thisview is contradicted by geological evidence indicating long Palaeocene and Eocene submersions andby recent biogeographic and phylogenetic studies with molecular or geophysical dating placing thebiota no older than the Oligocene. Phylogenetic relicts do not provide conclusive information in thisrespect, as their presence cannot be explained by simple hypotheses but requires assumption of manyad hoc extinction events. The implication of this new scenario is that all the New Caledonian biotacolonized the island since 37 Myr ago. Local richness can be explained by local radiation andadaptation after colonization but also by many dispersal events, often repeated within the samegroups of organisms. Local microendemism is another remarkable feature of the biota. It seems to berelated to recent speciation mediated by climate, orography, soil type and perhaps unbalanced bioticinteractions created by colonization disharmonies. New Caledonia must be considered as a very oldDarwinian island, a concept that offers many more fascinating opportunities of study.
Keywords: New Caledonia; biogeography; phylogenetics; endemism; dispersal; adaptation
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1. INTRODUCTIONNew Caledonia is a large and megadiverse tropical
island in the southwest Pacific, with distinctive
characteristics that make it a remarkable natural
laboratory of evolution. Owing to its geological
continental origin and the presence of apparent
phylogenetic relicts, New Caledonia has long been
considered a Gondwanan refuge where archaic groups
have survived for 80 Myr ago (Holloway 1979; Morat
1993a). Reflecting this, the amazing New Caledonian
species richness has been explained by local, long-term
cladogenesis rather than rapid speciation after recent
island colonization (e.g. Morat 1993b). This Gondwa-
nan view became widespread during the last few
decades (Lowry 1998; Lowry et al. 2005; Murienne
et al. 2005) and has often been invoked as a reason to
study thediverse NewCaledonianbiota (e.g.Mittermeier
et al. 1996; Pagel 2003). New Caledonia was also
characterized as a biodiversity hot spot owing to its high
species richness and level of endemism and the
conservation issues raised by nickel mining, anthro-
pogenic burning and forest logging (Bouchet et al.
ntribution of 15 to a Theme Issue ‘Evolution on PacificDarwin’s legacy’.
r for correspondence ( [email protected]).
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1998; Myers et al. 2000), as well as the deleteriouseffects of invasive species (Gargominy et al. 1996;Jourdan et al. 2001; Keith 2005; Beauvais et al. 2006;Pascal et al. 2008). However, an alternative view,presented earlier but gaining far less traction, empha-sized the absence of certain groups such as mammalsand continental beetles and of clear geological evidencefor Palaeocene marine transgression, and suggestedthat the biota was much more recent (Jeannel 1942;Faivre et al. 1955; Darlington 1957).
Convincing geological evidence now suggests thatthe second hypothesis is closer to the truth. NewCaledonia’s biodiversity is not that of a continentalisland that has retained many ancient groups since itsseparation from the northeastern margin of Australia,ca 80 Myr ago, but an oceanic island with a compositebiota dominated by neoendemism and disharmoniccolonization, a ‘Darwinian’ island (Gillespie & Roderick2002). The question now for biologists is not so muchwhether the biota are Gondwanan and ancient butwhen and in what manner the modern biota assembled.Such questions can be addressed by modern phyloge-netic approaches in the context of an accurategeological framework (Trewick et al. 2007). This isnow possible for New Caledonia since the island hasbeen the subject of increasing molecular phylogeneticand geological studies. We first briefly review the
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Figure 1. (a) Distribution of ultramafic rocks (shaded areas)in New Caledonia. (b) Orography in New Caledonia showingseveral chains of mountains, peaking at more than 1600 m inthe north and south.
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geological evidence that the biota is relatively youngand then turn to the phylogenetic patterns recentlydeciphered in an effort to answer these questions.
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2. GEOLOGICAL HISTORY AND EVOLUTIONOF THE BIOTAOriented northwest to southeast roughly betweenlatitudes 20 and 228 S, the island is 1220 km fromAustralia, 1700 km from New Zealand and approxi-mately 400 km from the islands of Vanuatu. It is16 890 km2 in area, with an elongate shape 500 kmlong and 50 km wide. Mountain ranges are complexand dissected by many rivers, with tablelands and peaksreaching elevations of more than 1600 m (figure 1).Most of the island is covered by wet evergreen forestswith anthropogenic savannahs dominating at lowelevations. A few small fragments of sclerophyll dryforest remain on the western coast and shrubbyvegetation (‘maquis minier’) occurs on metalliferoussoils, mostly in the south.
New Caledonia formed from part of a continentalfragment that began separating from Australia ca 83 Myrago as the Tasman Sea began to form (Brothers & Lillie1988; Neall & Trewick in press). The New Caledonianarea was subsequently subject to a series of dramaticgeological events (Paris 1981a,b). In the Palaeocene,the part of Zealandia that subsequently becameNew Caledonia experienced a lengthy submersion indeep water, as evidenced by marine sedimentation
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(Globigerina limestone) and the formation of fine-grained black chert (‘phtanites’ of French authors), atype of rock indicating deep submersion as its structureis shaped by high pressure (Paris 1981a,b; Aitchisonet al. 1998; Pelletier 2006). During the Eocene, thecontinental crust in the New Caledonia area wastectonically active, being in collision with the LoyaltyIslands arc, and obduction at this time placed a layer ofoceanic crust (lithosphere) over the submerged con-tinental crust. New Caledonia emerged during anOligocene lithosphere extension phase, uplifting with acover of lithospheric ultramafic rocks (Paris 1981a,b;Aitchison et al. 1995; Cluzel et al. 2001; Crawford et al.2003; Pelletier 2006; Schellart et al. 2006). The present-day mountains are relatively old since they are theproduct of complex orogenesis from Oligocene time, asindicated by several series of lateritic beds ranging fromsea level to mountain tops (Chevillotte et al. 2006). Inthe period prior to subaerial emergence of NewCaledonia, other islands might have existed on theNorfolk or the Loyalty Ridges but without anyrelationships or continuity with New Caledonia (Paris1981a,b; Herzer et al. 1997; Meffre et al. 2006). Smallerislands such as Norfolk or the Loyalty Islands upliftedand emerged much later, 3.7 and 2 Myr ago, as a resultof volcanism and lithosphere flexure, respectively(Dubois et al. 1974).
These successive geological events have had import-ant consequences for the evolution of the biota. First,more than 20 Myr ago of total submersion from thePalaeocene to the Eocene make it difficult to retain thenotion that a Gondwanan biota has survived locally(Murienne et al. 2005; Murienne 2006; Pelletier2006). Even if this biota persisted on emerged landsin the region, the occurrence of which is speculative,they had to disperse back to New Caledonia in theOligocene. Second, ultramafic rocks obducted in theEocene onto most of the New Caledonian mainlandhave given rise to an extensive area of metalliferoussoils. Though subjected to several erosion cycles, theyremain more extensive in the south. Being poor innutrients and rich in metals (mainly nickel and copper),they are highly stressing substrates for many organismsand could have strongly constrained biotic evolution.Third, there is no evidence for direct exchange withNew Zealand but only the possibility of stepping-stonedispersal after the Oligocene emersion, since part of theNorfolk Ridge was deep below sea level, deeper thanthe extent of major sea-level fluctuations. Theterrestrial biota on neighbouring islands (Norfolk andthe Loyalty Islands) is even more recent. Even thoughlocal volcanism has produced palaeo-islands there, reefstructures and underlying layers indicate an unambi-guous period of total submersion before their recentemersion (Dubois et al. 1974; Paris 1981a,b).
Owing to these three geological constraints, NewCaledonia is a remarkable palaeogeographic model as itpresents a combination of continental and oceanicfeatures. In spite of a Gondwanan origin, it has under-gone many recent tectonic events. Its elongated shape onthe Norfolk Ridge made it roughly parallel to thesubduction/obduction fronts that dramatically affectedit, precluding a situation in which part of the islandremained above the ocean surface while the rest was
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submerged. This strongly constrains biogeographichypotheses, arguing for Oligocene recolonization afterthe very long Palaeocene and Eocene submersions. Afteremersion, its isolated position between two deep oceanicbasins calls for rather simple explanations of its currentbiological diversity in terms of dispersal. In this geologicalcontext, the biota could be old, even though resultingfrom recolonization, and could have been shaped byorogenesis and extensive metalliferous soils over 37 Myrago, a far longer time than on many other oceanic islands.Keeping in mind this remarkable geological framework,we next examine phylogenetic evidence separately tomaintain logical independence between the two sourcesof evidence and to avoid circular reasoning, following thecareful argument of Waters & Craw (2006).
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3. ANCIENT RADIATIONS OR REPEATEDDISPERSAL?Answering this classical question is fundamental tounderstanding the evolution of biodiversity in NewCaledonia and makes it possible to distinguish regionalendemism (groups restricted to the New Caledoniamainland as a whole) from local endemism (groupsrestricted to certain locations in New Caledonia), anoften confused issue for this island (Murienne 2006).Most studies citing the high rates of endemism (oftenclose to 100%) in many groups of New Caledonianorganisms actually refer to regional endemismexamined in the context of large-scale phylogeneticstudies (e.g. Morat et al. 1986; Chazeau 1993; Lowry1998). Such studies often reveal that within certainNew Caledonian groups, multiple species are nestedwithin larger clades with taxa from Australia, NewZealand or New Guinea, calling for explanations interms of recent dispersal. If, conversely, large NewCaledonian clades are sister groups to taxa from otherregions, dating the sister-group dichotomy is the onlyway to assess whether dispersal is again the explanationor if a vicariance hypothesis can be supported, even inthe face of strong geological evidence to the contrary.Dating can be obtained from a molecular hypothesiswith careful calibration of substitution rates or ageological hypothesis based on some physical measure-ments (e.g. K–Ar dating for some islands).
The clades that have been studied so far, however, donot show very clear-cut results in this respect. In severalgroups, there is evidence for multiple nested relation-ships involving taxa from New Caledonia and otherregions, e.g. Nothofagus (Fagaceae; Swenson et al. 2001;Cook & Crisp 2005), Sapotaceae (Bartish et al. 2005)and Meryta (Araliaceae; Tronchet 2005). Bartish et al.(2005) dated the oldest New Caledonian species intheir study to 32.4 Myr ago with a molecular clock,corresponding to the Oligocene–Miocene transition.
Other groups show a single origin of their NewCaledonian species. However, ages were not alwaysevaluated by molecular dating in these studies but thegeographical patterns implied are nonetheless verydifferent fromone another. InAraucaria (Araucariaceae),the New Caledonian radiation is sister to the speciesendemic to the much more recent Norfolk Island(Setoguchi et al. 1998). Implicitly, this New Caledonianradiation also has a recent origin (3.7 Myr ago). The
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same applies for Placostylus land snails, the sister groupof which involves both the recently emerged LordHowe Island and New Zealand (Trewick et al.in press). The New Caledonian sandalwood, Santalumaustrocaledonicum, also differentiated recently, in this casefrom Vanuatu species 1–1.5 Myr ago (Harbaugh &Baldwin 2007). Other cases are different since thesister-group relationships involve large and remoteregions such as Indo-Malaysia (eneopterine crickets:Desutter-Grandcolas & Robillard 2006, Robillard &Desutter-Grandcolas 2006), Australia and Africa (Pro-teaceae: Barker et al. 2007), or are poorly resolved(Araliaceae: Eibl et al. 2001), which leaves the datingquestion more open. For the Proteaceae, the dating(43–25 Myr ago) does not concur with a scenario ofGondwanan vicariance, which is otherwise supported bythe tree topology (Barker et al. 2007). The NewCaledonian freshwater shrimp genus Paratya (Pageet al. 2005) and galaxiid fishes (Waters et al. 2000),sisters respectively to an Australian and a New Zealandgroup, are dated as younger than 12 and 9 Myr ago,respectively. The freshwater galaxiids, supposedly unableto disperse over the sea, were often considered a relicttaxon, even though the occurrence of marine larvae ispervasive in this group (Waters et al. 2000).
Infrequent and distinct colonization events havebeen inferred in diving beetles (Balke et al. 2004,2007a,b) and cockroaches (Murienne 2006; Murienneet al. in press a). In both, the occurrence of a fewdistinct clades in New Caledonia is an argument infavour of dispersal, at least for explaining the origin ofone of the clades. In these cases, molecular datingindicates recent origins (14 and 9 Myr ago or 8.3 Myrago, respectively).
We have not yet examined the case of the mostremarkable supposedly relict groups, which are oftenreferred to when arguing for a Gondwanan origin of theNew Caledonian biota. New Caledonia harbours sometaxa that are deeply embedded in the phylogenies of anumber of large groups (but also lacks others such asOnychophora). The most famous is the endemicAmborella trichopoda, the sole member of the Ambor-ellaceae and the sister group of all other floweringplants (Mathews & Donoghue 1999; Parkinson et al.1999; Qiu et al. 1999; Soltis et al. 1999). Anotherremarkable example is the emblematic flightless bird,the kagu (Rhynochetos jubatus), the closest relatives ofwhich occur in New Zealand and South America(Cracraft 2000; Fain & Houde 2004). A furtherexample is the New Caledonian subfamily Troglosir-onae (Opiliones), which is the sister group of taxa fromSouth America and West Africa and only distantlyrelated to Australian and the New Zealand taxa (Boyeret al. 2007). According to molecular dating, theseOpiliones diversified recently in New Caledonia(28–49 Myr ago) even though the divergence fromSouth America and West Africa is much older(124–221 Myr ago), the contrast between the twodates suggesting some extinction (Boyer et al. 2007).These deeply rooted and therefore relatively oldgroups, occurring in distant parts of the world, arefrequently considered as relicts and used to support aGondwanan origin for the biota of New Caledonia.Their presence in New Caledonia—considered as a
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Figure 2. A time scale for the major geological events including the emersion of the New Caledonia mainland, 37 Myr ago(horizontal dotted line), and estimated ages (horizontal bars) for New Caledonian clades according to the studies cited(confidence intervals are shown if provided by the authors). Smith et al. (2007) provided a confidence interval for the age ofscincid lizards of the whole of Tasmantis, indicated here with a vertical dotted line (the age of the New Caledonian clade itselfwas not provided but is necessarily more recent). Note that all these ages inferred independently from geology have been foundto post-date the emersion of the island.
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geologically old land—is assumed to result fromsurvival over 80 Myr ago. Contrary to this common
reasoning, we submit that these groups do not provide
much biogeographic and temporal information sincetheir relatives are either absent from the region around
New Caledonia or have a worldwide distribution. Theirlong time survival as relicts in New Caledonia is an
indirect assumption requiring further assumption ofmany extinction events in neighbouring regions such as
Australia or New Zealand (Grandcolas et al. in press).None of these studies provides clear evidence for old
local diversification since most dates inferred frommolecular phylogenies do not pre-date the Oligocene
(figure 2). Several emblematic groups such as Araucariaand Nothofagus have even undergone more recent
radiations or colonizations of New Caledonia. Also,there is ample evidence for the occurrence of repeated
dispersal in many groups. Thus, there is no strong,unambiguous evidence for very old local Gondwanan
radiations. Rather, many old Gondwanan groups arerepresented in New Caledonian by species of quite recent
origin. As a whole, phylogenetic patterns and especiallythe dating are consistent with the geological framework
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presented above. Phylogenetic relicts remain puzzlinglyenigmatic and their presence cannot be explained in asimple way.
4. LOCAL RADIATION AND VACANT NICHESThe question of radiation is often considered in relationto adaptation, and this is especially meaningful in thecontext of islands, where disharmony in colonizationoffers evolutionary opportunities for groups to diversifyin ‘vacant’ niches (Losos et al. 1998; Gillespie 2004;Gillespie et al. 2008). Undoubtedly, some of the NewCaledonian radiations have such adaptive back-grounds. The most remarkable examples are themonophyletic scincid and geckonid lizard radiations,the ecological diversity of which is unparalleled. Thesegroups exhibit many remarkable foraging behavioursand morphologies (e.g. minute and giant species) on anisland where other small vertebrates are scarce (Bauer &Sadlier 2000; Bauer et al. 2006; Smith et al. 2007).Another example is the radiation of the cricket genusAgnotecous (Eneopterinae), which includes manyspecies with peculiar stridulatory apparatuses that emit
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songs in unusually high frequencies and with harmonicshifts (Robillard & Desutter-Grandcolas 2004; Robillardet al. 2007). The cockroach subfamily Tryonicinae(Blattidae) includes the speciose genus Lauraesilpha,the members of which exhibit a unique combination ofbehavioural traits, wood eating, intestinal ciliates andsolitary habits (Grandcolas 1997; Murienne 2006;Murienne et al. in press a, submitted). These charac-teristics recall those of panesthiine cockroaches (Blaber-idae), which include many wood-eating species inAustralasia and throughout the southwest Pacific(including Vanuatu and Lord Howe Islands), but withthe exception of New Caledonia (Roth 1991). Thespringtails of the genus Caledonimeria are among thelargest species of Collembola (up to 8 mm), perhapsfilling the niche of some other locally absent soilarthropods (D’Haese 2003).
Concerning adaptation and vacant niches, theexpanding invasion by the little fire ant (Wasmanniaauropunctata) is a sad natural experiment that demon-strates how the structure of native communities canevolve in a peculiar manner and offer evolutionaryopportunities to colonizers on islands. Following itsrecent anthropogenic introduction, the little fire ant hascolonized New Caledonian communities in which thelocal Pheidole ant species are unable to compete, unlikeother Pheidole species in the native South Americancommunities of W. auropunctata (Le Breton et al. 2005,2007). The little fire ant seems to be preadapted to fill avacant or weakly preoccupied niche in New Caledonia.
Every group studied has been characterized by somepeculiar presumed adaptation, showing that evolution-ary novelties are manifold in New Caledonia. What isnow needed is to use new molecular phylogenetichypotheses to document how such novelties appearedon the island. Did they occur repeatedly in NewCaledonia by convergence with taxa absent from theisland? If so, this would substantiate the assumption ofevolutionary diversification into vacant niches.
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5. LOCAL ENDEMISMMicroendemism is extremely high on this medium-sizedisland (16 890 km2) and should not be neglected byemphasizing only larger-scale regional endemism(Murienne 2006). Along this 500 km long island,many related species are each often restricted to a verysmall area (often less than a few square kilometres). Thisamazing small-scale endemism has classically beenexplained by a combination of orography, soils andclimates, diverse landscape features that result in amosaic of habitats (Chazeau 1993; Morat 1993b). Manyplant distributions are clearly related to these features,as many species are specialized for soils derived fromeither metamorphic–granitic, calcareous or ultramaficsubstrates. Plant species are also often limited to eitherdry sclerophyll forest, maquis shrubland or evergreenforest on different parts of the mountain ranges atdifferent elevations, on the leeward, drier western coastor the windward, wetter eastern coast, from sea level toapproximately 1600 m (Morat 1993b; Lowry 1998).
Until now, no attempt had been made to explainmicroendemism with reference to historical factors andspeciation processes, except for some assumptions of
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climatic refuges for restricted distributions of palms(Pintaud & Jaffre 2001). However, recent phylogeneticstudies provide some insight into microendemismpatterns and their causes. Microendemism appearsprimarily related to allopatric speciation in plants (Eiblet al. 2001; Swenson et al. 2001, 2007; Bartish et al.2005; Bottin et al. 2005; Tronchet et al. 2005), insects(Desutter-Grandcolas & Robillard 2006; Murienneet al. 2005, in press a), land snails (Trewick et al.in press) and lizards (Bauer & Sadlier 2000; Bauer et al.2006; Smith et al. 2007), even though some cases ofsympatry and even syntopy have also been documentedin diving beetles (Balke et al. 2004, 2007b).
Most species in these various groups are restricted toa single mountain or group of mountains, sometimes insympatry with species from more distantly relatedgroups in the same clade. If the molecular substitutionrates used by the authors of these studies are correctlycalibrated, microendemism is a recent feature datingback only 2 or 3 Myr. This time frame is consistent withthe most commonly accepted scenario in such studiesthat microendemic species have established throughrepeated vicariance events on neighbouring mountainssubsequent to Quaternary climatic changes. Theclassical succession of dry/cold and hot/wet periodsprobably promoted allopatric speciation after rangefragmentation as the altitudinal ranges of species onmountains changed. Sea-level changes during the sameperiod could also have caused a few additionalvicariance events between the most peripheral moun-tains connected by low passes to the main body of thecentral ranges. A stronger argument than one based onmolecular clocks alone can be made when a clade ofmicroendemic species in New Caledonia is sister tospecies occurring only on recently uplifted neighbour-ing islands (Norfolk, Lord Howe), which, asmentioned above, is the case for Araucaria trees(Setoguchi et al. 1998) and Placostylus land snails(Trewick et al. in press). Another case is the cockroachAngustonicus, two species of which occur only on theLoyalty Islands and are sister to all those on the NewCaledonia mainland (Murienne et al. 2005). As arguedby Murienne et al. (2005), this kind of relationshipbetween taxa of the New Caledonia mainland and of aneighbouring and more recent island is good evidencefor recent diversification in each group since sistergroups are the same age, i.e. the age of the more recentisland. Trewick (2000) reported a similar case for NewZealand and the Chatham Islands. A contrary interpre-tation would require invoking either unknown orextinct mainland species closely related to those onthe more recent islands, a presumption that preventsany further logical biogeographic reasoning. However,following this presumption, some authors havehypothesized that palaeo-islands, pre-existing in thesame place as recently uplifted islands (a geologicallyplausible assumption), could have harboured amember of the same clade, thus allowing for an olderage (Heads 2005; Ladiges & Cantrill 2007). Such anassumption is, however, not warranted, as there is noactual evidence for recently uplifted islands occurringin conjunction with those palaeo-islands; and in anycase, such a scenario would require several dispersalevents among those islands in the past.
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Based on these same studies, speciation seems tohave occurred frequently between different mountainsor mountain massifs but not necessarily along altitu-dinal gradients on a single mountain, even though somespecies are distributed preferentially at low or highelevations and some altitudinally vicariant distributionsare known in plants (most summits are only 1000 mhigh, the highest being Mont Panie at 1628 m andMont Humboldt at 1618 m). In this respect, there isno differentiation between low- and high-elevationpopulations of the same microendemic Lauraesilphacockroach species, which are generally restricted toone mountain or massif (Murienne et al. in press a).Future studies will need to address this issue further byfocusing on the highest summits to assess whether thepresence or absence of altitudinal speciation in variousgroups could be related to the local size of the gradient.
Although adaptation appears to be a salient featureof regional endemism, this is not the case for localmicroendemism, in which many closely related andallopatrically distributed species apparently do notdiffer from each other in functional traits. For example,niche modelling among different species of thecockroach genera Angustonicus and Lauraesilpha failedto detect gross differences in microclimatic or altitu-dinal parameters (Murienne 2006; Murienne et al.in press b). Similarly, niches of Nothofagus specieslargely overlap with regard to climate even though theyhave different altitudinal distributions (Read et al.2005). An exception to this pattern is the twoecologically segregated sympatric sister species ofdiving beetles on Mont Panie (Balke et al. 2007b).This probably means that microendemism and adap-tation reflect complex evolutionary processes that takeplace at various levels in the phylogenetic hierarchy,with microendemism tending to happen more distally(and thus inferred to be more recent) and adaptivechanges occurring more basally (and thereforeregarded as more ancient).
Following the same adaptive line of reasoning,speciation related to soil diversity and especially tometalliferous soils has often been suggested to explainhigh local richness and persistence of adapted archaicgroups when confronted with supposedly poorly adaptednew immigrants (Holloway 1979; Morat 1993b; Haase &Bouchet 1998; Lowry 1998; Setoguchi et al. 1998;Bauer & Sadlier 2000). Metalliferous soils have beenconsidered highly stressing substrates for many organ-isms, being poor in nutrients and rich in toxic metalsincluding nickel (Proctor 2003). This opinion has beentempered by some recent studies showing that adaptationto metalliferous soils in plants is pervasive in manygroups, being either symplesiomorphic or convergent(de Kok 2002). In insects, except for oligophagous ormonophagous species feeding exclusively on hyperaccu-mulating plants (Boyd et al. 2006), diversification doesnot appear to be dependent on metalliferous soils(Desutter-Grandcolas & Robillard 2006; Murienneet al. submitted).
For all these reasons, a general explanation of NewCaledonian microendemism fits better with a model ofspeciation involving niche conservatism and populationdivergence in environments isolated after climaticchanges (e.g. mountains; Wiens 2004). New Caledonia
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is a good model for addressing such issues owing to itscomplex orography and elongate shape in a subtropicalnorthwest–southwest geographical position resultingin climatic diversity and major effects of historicalclimate changes.
6. CONCLUSION AND FUTURE RESEARCHDIRECTIONSBased on phylogenetic studies and geological evidence,New Caledonia must be regarded as a very oldDarwinian island, dating to 37 Myr ago. The islandhas been subject to long periods of submersion in thePalaeocene–Eocene, the extent of which, contrary tothe situation in New Zealand, is not disputed bygeologists (Lee et al. 2001; Pole 2001; Trewick &Morgan-Richards 2005; Trewick et al. 2007). Conse-quently, the island’s entire biota can only have resultedfrom a total recolonization since the Oligocene, whichis consistent with independent dating from molecularphylogenetic studies.
In this context, New Caledonian diversity appears tohave resulted from relatively ancient adaptive diversi-fications with abundant recent small-scale speciationinvolving niche conservatism. This contrasts with largetropical forest basins, where small-scale speciation playsa minor role (Moritz et al. 2000). A parallel conclusionwas drawn by Latimer et al. (2005), who comparedplant diversity in the South African fynbos with thatin the Amazonian basin. In contrast to its role in theNew Caledonian terrestrial biota, small-scale speciationalso seems to play a minor role in New Caledonianmarine ecosystems and especially on the sea mounts ofthe Norfolk Ridge, where diversity is more related toecological patchiness than to microendemism on eachindividual sea mount (Samadi et al. 2006).
An increasing number of phylogenetic studies hasmade it possible to propose some preliminary generalconclusions about the evolution of diversity in NewCaledonia at both regional and local levels. Suchstudies should now be orientated to address severalemerging questions. First, work on estimating the timeof origin of groups that may represent pre-Oligocenerelicts should be continued to confirm or falsify theDarwinian nature of New Caledonia. Second, fossildiversity for many groups, including insects, must bebetter studied, as it can shed light on past diversity andecosystem history (Antoine et al. 2006). In this regard,some studies have revealed a recently extinct largevertebrate fauna, showing that generalizations basedonly on extant faunas can sometimes be misleading(Gaffney et al. 1984; Balouet & Buffetaut1987; Balouet &Olson 1989). Third, efforts to understand the adaptivesignificance of New Caledonian evolutionary noveltiesmust be sought by documenting whether taxa diversifiedinto so-called vacant niches (Losos et al. 1998; Gillespie2004). The amazingly small scale of speciation in NewCaledonia is also an issue for study. In particular,modelling should address the question of whetherlandscape complexity combined with climatic changesis sufficient to explain the scale and amountof endemism. Biotic factors possibly promoting specia-tion also need to be considered, such as someremarkably low population densities, perhaps caused
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by high predation or competition pressures resultingfrom disharmonies in colonization.
We thank Raphael Leblois, Sarah Samadi and Jerome Sueurfor reading the manuscript and provided insightful com-ments, and Pete Lowry who also corrected our English. Thisis a contribution from the project BIONEOCAL funded bythe Agence Nationale de la Recherche (2008–2010) andfunded previously through the Programme pluriformation‘Structure et evolution des ecosystemes’ (Museum nationald’Histoire naturelle).
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